[MANTTASKS-234] artifact:dependencies does not download latest version SNAPSHOT dependency if already present locally

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.3
• Component/s: dependencies task
• Environment: Windows
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Justin Rowe
• Created: 03/Dec/12 07:04
• Updated: 18/May/16 21:26
• Resolved: 18/May/16 21:26

Description

We are using <artifact:dependencies> to trigger download of an artifact from a remote repo to the local repo. When the dependency is a SNAPSHOT dependency, it only seems to check that the dependency exists in the local repo, it does not check that there is a more recent snapshot in the remote repo. So the snapshot artifact does not get updated with the latest version.

My workaround is to call this artifact:dependencies, delete the artifact that is referred to in the property that gets set by this task, and then call artifact:dependencies again to ensure that we have the correct version.